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What Are Discourse Markers?

open access: yesProceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Health and Education 2019 (SOHE 2019), 2019
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Discourse markers

1998
Studies of Discourse Markers so far have concentrated on either the descriptive or the theoretical parameter. This book brings together thirteen papers concerning aspects of lexical instantiations of Discourse Marking devices, ranging from functional descriptions along cognitive, attitudinal, interactive and structure signalling lines to theoretical ...
Andreas H. Jucker, Yael Ziv
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Discourse Markers

2022
Abstract Chapter 7 is concerned with the organization of discourse. Classical and post-classical subordinators, coordinators, and particles are considered. Discourse-organisational trends in post-classical Greek, Coptic a4nd colloquial discourse more generally coincide, such that positive transfer and/or reinforcement is more frequent ...
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Discourse Markers

2023
Abstract This chapter examines discourse markers in Chicago Spanish. It compares patterns of use of so and entonces among Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican speakers of different generational groups with varying Spanish proficiency levels.
Kim Potowski, Lourdes Torres
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No as a discourse marker

Journal of Pragmatics, 2011
Abstract The English discourse marker yeah is widely recognized to hold several functions, doing the work not only of agreement and acknowledgment, but also topic management and speaker shift. In contrast, little attention has been paid to no, intuitively its opposite in meaning.
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Discourse markers and discourse relations

2017
Abstract We investigate if and how Discourse Markers (DMs) can be integrated into a dynamic semantic framework (in the SDRT variant, cf. Asher & Lascarides 2003, 2008, 2009) in order to study the relationships between discursive markers and rhetoric relations in a dialogue.
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The Rise of Discourse Markers

2021
Discourse markers constitute an important part of linguistic communication, and research on this phenomenon has been a thriving field of study over the past three decades. However, a problem that has plagued this research is that these markers exhibit a number of structural characteristics that are hard to interpret based on existing methodologies ...
Bernd Heine   +3 more
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Are apposition markers discourse markers?

Journal of Linguistics, 1996
This paper aims to re-assess the notion DISCOURSE MARKER as it is applied to a subset of so-called apposition markers. It is argued that the classification of markers of reformulation as discourse markers alongside expressions like but and so is incoherent from a semantic point of view, since this ignores the distinction between PROCEDURAL and ...
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On the rise of discourse markers

2021
Abstract Discourse markers exhibit a range of grammatical properties that set them apart from many other lexical and grammatical forms. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to account for these properties. Most commonly, such
Bernd Heine   +3 more
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